[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

slim \slim\ sli^m, a. compar. slimmer; superl.
   slimmest. formerly, bad, worthless, weak, slight, awry,
   fr. d. slim; akin to g. schlimm, mhg. slimp oblique, awry; of
   uncertain origin. the meaning of the english word seems to
   have been influenced by slender.
   1. worthless; bad. prov. eng.  scot.
      1913 webster

   2. weak; slight; unsubstantial; poor; as, a slim argument.
      "that was a slim excuse." --barrow.
      1913 webster

   3. of small diameter or thickness in proportion to the height
      or length; slender; as, a slim person; a slim tree.
      --grose.
      1913 webster
see also:
slimmer slimmest 

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

slim
     adj 1: being of delicate or slender build; "she was slender as a
            willow shoot is slender"- frank norris; "a slim girl
            with straight blonde hair"; "watched her slight figure
            cross the street" syn: slender, slight
     2: small in quantity; "slender wages"; "a slim chance of
        winning"; "a small surplus" syn: slender
     v : take off weight syn: reduce, melt off, lose weight, slenderize,
          thin, slim down ant: gain
     also: slimmest, slimmer
see also:
slender slight reduce melt off lose weight slenderize 
thin slim down gain slimmest slimmer 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

138 moby thesaurus words for "slim":
   lenten, spartan, abstemious, adroit, airy, ascetic, attenuate,
   attenuated, austere, barebones, bean pole, beanstalk, boyish,
   broomstick, canny, cheeseparing, chinchy, chintzy, clothes pole,
   corpse, cunning, delicate, dexterous, diaphanous, diet, diluted,
   dwarfed, dwarfish, ethereal, exiguous, fat, fine, fine-drawn,
   finespun, flimsy, frail, frugal, gauzy, girlish, gossamer, gracile,
   impoverished, infrequent, ingenious, insubstantial, jejune, lacy,
   lanky, lean, light, limited, lissome, lithe, lithesome,
   lose weight, meager, mean, miserly, misty, narrow, negligible,
   niggardly, off, outside, paltry, papery, parsimonious, piddling,
   poor, puny, rare, rarefied, rattlebones, reduce, reedy, scant,
   scanty, scarce, scattered, scrawny, scrimp, scrimping, scrimpy,
   seldom met with, seldom seen, shadow, skeleton, skimp, skimping,
   skimpy, slender, slenderish, slenderize, slight, slight-made,
   slimmish, slinky, sly, small, spare, sparing, sparse, spindlelegs,
   spindleshanks, spotty, sprinkled, stack of bones, starvation,
   stilt, stingy, stinted, straitened, stunted, subsistence, subtle,
   svelte, sylphlike, tenuous, thin, thin-bodied, thin-set, thin-spun,
   thinnish, threadlike, tight, twiggy, unnourishing, unnutritious,
   vague, walking skeleton, wasp-waisted, watered, watered-down,
   watery, weak, willowy, wiredrawn, wispy

[4] : Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001)

slim n. a small, derivative change e.g., to code.

[5] : The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)

slim
     
        a vlsi language for translating dfa's into circuits.
        j.l. hennessy, "slim: a simulation and implementation language
        for vlsi microcode", lambda, apr 1981, pp.20-28.
     
        jargon file
     
     
see also:
jargon file 

[6] : The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)

slim
     
         a small, derivative change e.g. to code.
     
        2003-05-13
     
     

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